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The connection we all have back to oneness doesn't mean "I" am the only ego existing in this physical world. Those other egos have their own agenda or experience but are connected to oneness just as well. If any ego becomes more enlightened or more able to identify with oneness, that spills over somewhat into everyone's experience to some degree. I didn't look up anything, but read once about meditation groups finding a correlation between reduced crime and the number of TM programs (meditators) in cities.

I think the idea of everyone else not being their own illusionary ego self doesn't make sense and sounds like an misplacement of what the oneness is. Just because there's a single oneness to everything doesn't mean a distilled consciousness (ego) that "I" know as me is a single one and only "thing". However, someone like you the reader, is "me" as taken from the point of view of oneness. Being oneness, we are all the same one.

It seems like Steve was on a tangent, to me, about SR and trying to apply the oneness of everything to the fragmented ego world, which sounded like a way to try to flip your ego into thinking about SR, more than how it actually may be. It's more like both egos and the oneness of SR are dependant on each other, not that "I" can be oneness down here in this seperative objective world. But then you can find spiritual writings that say the ego is an illusion, so, with that view, you and me both are in the same boat, equally figments of consciousness.

We, and not just me, are spirit in the material world.